The contest “Colourful Fields... or the School Premier League” Completed

We’ve got the Winner! In the fourth edition of FFiL Śnieżka S.A.’s community programme: “Colourful Fields... or the School Premier League...”, the main prize – a professional, multi-purpose field has been awarded to the Elementary School in Kaznów, Lubelskie Voivodeship.

“The level of contributions submitted this year has exceeded our most daring expectations. Pupils have demonstrated ingenuity and team spirit. In every work you could see both the heart and great effort. Choosing the winning work was extremely difficult,” says the president of the jury, Magdalena Olszewska, Public Relations Specialist at FFiL Śnieżka S.A.

The contribution that won the jury’s accolades and the highest score was the spatial model of the field with players’ figurines of modelling clay prepared by pupils from the Elementary School in Kaznów. Their entry was full of life. As each player was attached to the field with a fishing line, viewers got the impression that a real match was going on on the board with the players actually chasing the ball. We also had the enthusiastic crowd in the stand: not only children and adults but even a senior citizen and a mother with her baby in a pram, all faithfully supporting the players in the game.

News of the victory reached the children during the end of school year ceremony. There were tears of emotion and great joy of pupils, teachers and parents.
“This was our second contribution for the “Colourful Fields...” contest,” says Marta Szklarczyk, Headmistress of the Elementary School in Kaznów. Although we were not successful last year, the pupils did not give up. It is their enthusiasm and perseverance that let them reach out for the highest trophy. The children really believed that they could win. They worked like beavers. Even after school they were painting and making figurines, giving their whole heart to the project. The news of victory was a great surprise. We are very happy indeed!,” adds the Headmistress.

Second place went to Elementary School no. 6 in Suwałki, which received paints for painting school rooms from Śnieżka. The Polish Football Association (PZPN), acknowleding the effort made in preparing the contribution, donated 40 tickets for the Poland-Ukraine match. The contribution of School no. 6 in Suwałki lost by only a small number of votes to Kaznów. The involvement of the pupils, effort and ingenuity fascinated the patron of the programme, the Ministry of Sport and Tourism, which gave the students a Special Award.

“Each work had something magical about it, says Tatiana Mindewicz-Puacz of TFC, the originator of the programme – the choice was even more difficult because we were perfectly aware that there were children’s dreams and hopes behind every work. The quality of the contributions was very balanced, and the difference between the first and second place was really small, adds Tatiana Mindewicz-Puacz.

The third-place winner was Schools no. 3 in Przytkowice. For them, FFiL Śnieżka funded paints and the Polish Football Association (PZPN) a set of football kits for the school team.




The Special Award granted by Tamex Obiekty Sportowe S.A., the programme partner and the main contractor, went to the Elementary School in Dzbenin (Mazowieckie Voivodeship). During the end of year ceremony, pupils received professional portable football goals, footballs and small gifts.


Anna Dymna – a wonderful actress, founder and President of the “Against the Odds” Foundation” and also a member of jury in the “Colourful Fields...” contest and a spiritus movens of the programme remembered her own childhood when assessing the contributions. “While I was looking at several children’s contributions in Warsaw, I had a lump in my throat. It was not long ago when I was making such paintings, figurines and embroidered skies myself. You could see the joy and enthusiasm in works submitted for the jury’s assessment. I thought to myself: our world is so beautiful! And that is true. I would like to thank you for having an opportunity to be useful in the jury. Sometimes I would like to be a fairy godmother, conjure up heaps of money and, for example, reward every competing school with a field. It would be such fun! But I'm not a fairy godmother. Instead, I think that “Śnieżka” absolutely deserves this title as the concept, the competition, and the whole project are really magical,” adds the juror.

The patrons of the “Colourful Fields... or the School Premier League” are the Ministry of Sport and Tourism, the Polish Football Association (PZPN) and the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl). Support was also provided by the Torwar Central Sports Centre. Honorary Ambassadors of the “Colourful Fields” are Katarzyna Cichopek, Anna Nowak-Ibisz and Artur Barciś.

The construction work will continue throughout the holiday period, and from as early as the end of September pupils from Kaznów will play the opening game on their new field.

In this year’s competition, the fourth one, as many as 61 schools from all over Poland competed for the field! The five-person jury evaluated the projects in four categories: concept, involvement (teamwork), presentation and artistic quality.

All admitted entries can be admired in the spacious exhibition hall at the premises of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl). The exhibition will be open until the end of July 2010.